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I play well with everybody.
What is your major malfunction?
I always love to come to Austin.
This is for fighting, this is for fun.
There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.
Try as you may, you can never defy love.
I got to write most of everything I said.
I spend a lot of time with my characters.
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!
That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.
I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.
It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.
Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.
I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.
I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.
Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.